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  A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

  1599

  by James S. Shapiro

  1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet ; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro... (more)
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  The Selected Poems of David Shapiro

  by David Shapiro

  David Shapiro's poetry--from his acclaimed 1965 debut January to the new poems debuting in this career-spanning collection--speaks with the resonance of a far-ranging erudition while simultaneously playing across the surface of American English with a musical sensibility unparalleled in contemporary verse. In this landmark volume, celebrating Shapiro’s 60th year and his 10th book-length volume of... (more)
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  Black & White

  by Dani Shapiro

  From the author of Family History (“Poised, absorbing . . . a bona fide page turner”— The New York Times Book Review ) and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion, a spellbinding novel about art, fame, ambition, and family that explores a provocative question: Is it possible for a mother to be true to herself and true to her children at the same time? Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself... (more)
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  Desiree Shapiro: Book 13

  Murder Can Run Your Stockings

  by Selma Eichler

  Misstep or Murder?Flying home from a friend's wedding in Minneapolis, Desiree is seated alongside an attorney traveling to New York for a funeral. It seems his beloved aunt Bessie died from a fall down the basement steps. Before long, however, the man begins to suspect that the accidental tumble wasn't any accident, and he prevails upon Manhattan's most warmhearted and weighty PI to uncover the... (more)